DO NOT OPEN - Obama Acceptance Speech Email - Trojan Virus TAKE NOTE URGENT
By ellie333
@ellie333 (21016)
January 22, 2009 12:55pm CST
THERE IS AN EMAIL WITH SUBJECT LINE OBAMA ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FLOATING AROUND WITH A TROJAN HORSE ATTACHMENT. DO NOT OPEN FOR ANY REASON!!! DELETE IMMEDIATELY. THE TROJAN STEALS ALL PASSWORDS AND USER IDS!!! SPREAD THE WORD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.
I thought I had better warn everybody and this has been verified on Snopes. Please do not open. If someone else has alrady warned you of this better to be told twice than not at all and it be too late.
Have any of you ever been affected by something like this?
Huggles. Ellie :D
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32 responses
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
23 Jan 09
Hi ellie! Thanks for the warning! I did not see this warning
at all! I appreciate it very much! You can never have enough
warnings as far as I'm concerned! If I see twenty of these
very same warnings I will be just as grateful! It is so
disgusting that people would want to capitalize on something
as important as President Obama's acceptance speech!
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@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
22 Jan 09
Thank you. I probably wouldn't have opened it anyway but it never hurts to have a reminder on stuff like this.
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@checapricorn (16060)
• United States
22 Jan 09
[i]Hi ellie,
thanks for sharing us this information! I never experienced receiving an email like that but at least I have an idea now!
Take care![/i]
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@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
24 Jan 09
It's a real one. It's a doozy it steals all your passwords. Yikes. What a pain if you get it and have to first eradicate it then get new passwords for every ting.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
25 Jan 09
I rarely forward these virus warnings. This one is written in the same style all the hoax's are. I will rewrite this one and forward it compleate with the link to snoops.
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@mariposaman (2959)
• Canada
23 Jan 09
You should be advising everyone never to open an attachment on you email. Also you should be encouraging them to delete such suspicious emails without opening even though they are from one of your friends. The virus laden email usually when opened sends out a copy to everyone in your address book, that is how it spreads, and then some unsuspecting person opens what he thinks is an email from his friend and he gets the virus too and it sends itself to everyone on his address book.
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@mariposaman (2959)
• Canada
25 Jan 09
If you got it that probably means that someone who has you on their address book opened up an email attachment they should not have and got infected. There is no way to track these things back, just hope they have a good anti-virus. The trouble now is the one of the things these viruses do now is to disable your antivirus so they have control of the computer without being removed. There are also thousands of computers now infected that have been turned int "bot" computers under the command of a hacker. They can send out messages to their robot army of computers to tell them what to do. There is the possiblity that the virus can install a key logger that steals your passwords and bank account information. It is just not worth it when you get such an email to open it and become infected.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
24 Jan 09
I posted this exact same discussion one weeks ago!
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1871704.aspx
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
23 Jan 09
Hi Ellie....there is much more to this than meets the eye...Yes....there is a real virusbut there are more headings to be wary of. Members really need to check out the whole entry at Snopes;
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/obamaspeech.asp
they also mention some video links that contain password stealing links.
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@ellie333 (21016)
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23 Jan 09
Hi MsTickle, I should have perhaps put this link into the header of the discussion but didn't have it at the time. It is frightening how people can do this and steal so much personal information isn't it. Thank you for the extra warnings, appreciated. Huggles. Ellie :D
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
25 Jan 09
I have not. I usually open up the header and if it does not say that it comes from, I do not open it. I do have an anti-keylogger (writing a novel and do not like thieves) and I have a good anti-virus that tells when there is a trojan in an email, and gives you the option to delete it. And it does help to put in your email address only those you want to receive emails from and those lists you join.
But I want to know who was the email aimed at, Obama lovers or Obama haters?
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@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
25 Jan 09
It could come from a friend who is infected.
It's good you have an anti key logger. Usually people key log to steal passwords, and your bank account or other accounts, but you never know what they will steal.
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@suruchi86 (1872)
• India
24 Jan 09
Thanks for the warning. Though I've not yet received such mail, I'll surely keep your warning in mind.
@cortney09 (1345)
• United States
23 Jan 09
Thanks so much for the warning. I don't open any emails that I don't know where they come from. But I will be even more careful now that I know about this email.
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@littleowl (7157)
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27 Jan 09
Hi Ellie thanks for the Info..we all need to know what is going around nowadays these viruses and hackers are getting so clever, so thanks for telling us...Huggles Littleowl
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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22 Jan 09
Hi ya ellie333
To be honest I probably wouldn't have opened it anyway but thank you so much for looking out for you fellow myLotters because a lot of them are American and this would have been of great interest to them. I get a lot of spams and scams in my inbox and spam folder and I don't even bother reading the title anymore. If I don't know the name of the sender then I trash it immediately. I have even had loads from banks and they get deleted straight away too. Some of them I don't even bank with and my own banks don't have my email address because I didn't want to get any junkmail from them about loans etc!!
Thanks again ellie 
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@scorpio19 (1363)
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22 Jan 09
Hi Ellie,That's very good of you to warn people, thank you. I did once have a trojan on my pc it was a nightmare in the end up I reinstalled the pc but knew it was still there, so downloaded Maleware which got it straightaway.
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@scorpio19 (1363)
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22 Jan 09
oh very good idea hun perhaps you would like to do that for me xx
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@skinnychick (6905)
• United States
23 Jan 09
Thanks for the heads up ellie. But chances are anything with Obama in my mailbox will be tossed in the trash pile anyway.
Thankfully I have never been a viral victim and would like to keep it that way. :)
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@jdyrj777 (6528)
• United States
24 Jan 09
Thanks for the warning! So far the only thing ive gotten like that are from washingtonpost.com. I have a built in immunity against that anyway in that i find speaches BORING. All that stuff i deleted with out reading.
Hope they didnt get into your passwords.
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